Game very very laggy in Certain places

[Stonebits]

My comp seems to really lag up in certain places....

Athlon Xp 2100, 512kddr ram, geforce 3.... Asus MB I think...Running win xp.

When I enter the portal keep (svaud faste) or where the portal is in SI, or sometimes in odd aresa of DF, like the x roads.... I start getting one frame every 2 seconds....

If if tap the keyboard to turn, i find ive turned sometimes 180 degrees....

Im wondering if its my Graphics card (think the latest drivers I have are about 3 months old).....

I run a second account on my (very) old pc, a pentium 400 with a tnt1 gpx card in it, and this is less laggy in these areas.... just consistantly laggy everywhere else hehe.....

Or my settings? (think I have it set so that char models, ie cloaks etc are only drawn at the closest setting)

Thinking of getting a new PC soon anyway, but in the meantime its annoying....

 

[dylan32]

I have the same problem.

My setup;
Athlon 2600+
Geforce FX5600
512 DDR400
Abit motherboard (via chipset)

The game runs very smooth except when I enter one of these locations;
wearyall hill
krondon
a tree near the entrance to keltoi
the campfire in the dwarf camp south of humberton
a certain spot in the woods in black mountains

It's not lag (lag is caused by low/no ping). My PC will occasionally totally shutdown when I enter one of these locations. I therefore have to completely avoid them.

I've informed rightnow about a month ago, and have been constantly updating the request, but they haven't done a thing.

Very frustrating as I cannot fully enjoy SI after paying for the damn thing.

 

[Freypal]

Same problem,

XP2000+
512 DDR Ram
GeForce 4 ti4200
ISDN

well above recomended... i just get about 1 frame every 2 seconds in the following ..

The slope leasing up to avalon city
Some areas of camp forest
And terribley bad in Aegirs Landing by the portal
Also in hibernian portal keep

I have no idea wot the problem is. smooth everywhere else :/

 

[dylan32]

Hmm. I've had a reply from the US tech team about this, and they said it was due to my FX GPU. Apparantly it's a known issue with SI and FX drivers. Mythic are negotiating with nvidia to correct the problem.

But, you guys are not using FX cards...

Also, you are experiencing the same problem, but in different areas...? (I know that the south slope outside Avalon City is fine with me).

 

[Deadmanwalking]

On a slightly related note. Does SI work with ANY GFX cards, Mobos, sound cards, Operatin systems, memory etc etc

All there is in here is the tech team says SI doesn't like such and such a piece of hardware.

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Good game